[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Source-Version in debian/control

James Westby jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Mon Jun 5 20:06:26 UTC 2006


I saw earlier that use of ${Source-Version} is discouraged in
debian/control as it can break in a few cases during an binNMU. 

dpkg provides two variables that could be substituted. 

  source:Version
    The source package version.

  binary:Version
    The binary package version (which may differ from
    source:Version in a binNMU for example).

which I guess implies binary:Version should be used.

I'm going to change to binary:Version. If this is wrong drop me an email
and I'll revert the change. 

James

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